Word: simla
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...agree to the establishment of an impartial tribunal to investigate alleged breaches of the Delhi pact (TIME, March 2), as Gandhi had first demanded, but he did say that he would have some of the more startling charges looked into. The Mahatma retired to his mountain retreat near Simla, took a ceremonial bath, repeated a litany 1,008 times with some disciples, began his wild dash for London...
Mahatma Gandhi, still trying to make up his mind at Simla whether or not to attend a round table conference at London, retired from the world last week for his customary Day of Silence. Emerging 24 hours later, he was respectfully begged by British reporters to outline what he considered his Ten Commandments for an ideal life. St. Gandhi blinked modestly behind his glittering spectacles...
...deadlock thus total, both parties made irate statements. Sir Tej and Mr. Jayakar reported that the Gandhite leaders said to them in substance: "The Viceroy's words afford a further painful insight into government mentality. It is as plain as daylight that from the dizzy heights of Simla [Viceregal Summer Capital in the mountains] India's rulers are unable to understand and appreciate the difficulties of the starving millions living in the plains, whose incessant toil makes government from such a dizzy height at all possible...
Viceroy's Plan. From the "dizzy heights" of Simla a brief cable pictured Viceroy Lord Irwin as "laboring night and day" to whip together "a proposal alternative to the report of the Simon Commission [TIME, June 30 et ante] and much more liberal." This means that the Viceroy himself is a rebel against the Simon Report, which nearly all Indians consider too reactionary and which a probable plurality of Englishmen (including all the Conservatives) hold to be too liberal...
...intensified their "pay no taxes" campaign and taxpayers struck in some 70 towns; 2) the National Bank of India and a number of adjoining shops at Delhi burned for a $550,000 loss in "mysterious circumstances" concealed by censorship; 3) at the summer palace of Viceroy Baron Irwin at Simla, India, His Excellency showed no sign of weakening in his policy, maintained a firm tone and began to study the first section of the Simon report on India; 4) natives at Poona, a few days after the parade, were preparing further to "revolt" by sending stock to the forests...